The Rise and Fall of Driver
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In the late 1990s, the PlayStation was abound with racing games. Gran Turismo, Need for Speed, Ridge Racer, and many more provided players with plenty of hours of breakneck entertainment behind digital steering wheels.
Among these games, however, was a decidedly different experience from Newcastle-based developer Reflections Interactive. Simply titled Driver, the game focused more on emulating the thrill of Hollywood-style car chases than on pure racing, allowing players to unleash their inner Steve McQueen across the United States’ roughest roads. The game was immensely successful, and quickly spawned a lesser, yet ambitious sequel that allowed players to exit and hijack cars nearly a year before Rockstar allowed players to do the same in Grand Theft Auto III.
Unfortunately, the subsequent popularity and quality of the Grand Theft Auto games would prove to be an albatross around Driver’s neck. Unable to escape the former series’ transcendental fame, Reflections would gradually inject more and more of its open-world trappings into Driver, leading to some major embarrassments, and the gradual loss of the franchise’s identity.
Finally, after switching multiple publishers and coming to terms with Driver’s strengths, Reflections would transition the series back into pure, car-chasing action with 2011’s Driver: San Francisco. The cost of doing so left Reflections uninterested in doing much else with the series - but resulted in an immensely entertaining experience; one that righted its predecessors’ missteps, while offering clever new ideas that helped release it from Grand Theft Auto’s shadow.
This is the rise and fall of Driver.
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I could not even complete the tutorial of Driver 1 when I was a kid.
please subscribe dad Didn't speak English when I was a kid so I didnt understand what I had to do but I enjoyed the shit out of it anyway lol
Me neither but then I did and it was amazing.
samee, as a kid i couldnt get used to the driving mechanics and only played free-roam, still had a blast doing so!
I must've played that tutorial for over an hour straight!
Me too there was this kid back then who would take money to pass the tutorial for any one who is stuck and activate the invincible cheat
"And the use of a slow motion mode to make difficult maneuvers"
*que footage of slamming into the back of a truck*
Exactly LOL.
Exactly what I thought.
Not to mention that you don't "make" a manouevre.
I only used the slow mo to help set up crashes.......because i'm that guy that won't play the actual story, just spend hours fucking around
Driver San Fransico is definitely one of the most underrated games I've ever played. I really hope it gets put back up on sale because that game was incredible.
It can be had on PC for free if you know where to look.
@Xilon Not steamunlocked, other places.
@Xilon Nuh uh, not getting this account banned just because you can't figure things out.
@@MuseHijinks Didn't know youtube banned accounts for posting links lol.
@@SuperLeonBlade copyright is a bitch
Driver 3 was ahead of its time visually but it was so rushed
If it haven't had been rushed, it would've been a great game
I really liked the vehicle damage in Driver 3.
The 3rd one will always be the best one made, to me it had a better story line and i remember that you could find Tommy from vice city and had to kill him as a bonus
@Neo Papa GTA 3 was released in 2001 but even 3 years is alot of improvement years in terms of technology
green97probe in fact in recall the driver3 website letting you smash up cars to show you the damage capability.. mind blowing at the time..
If it hadn't been*
Here's an fun fact I noticed as a kid playing Driver 2. Tanner's shadow actually shows a gun in his hand eventhough you don't hold a gun.
I,thought i was the only one seeing it as a child .
I saw that too
I just fought he had a big dick 😂
also the fact you could sit on chairs for no reason at all, lmfao
@@katashu7689 holy shit man I forgot about that 😂😂😂
DRIV3R was one of the first games I got on the PS2. I was so young that I overlooked and never noticed how broken and empty the game was. I've tried to revisit the game since and it's impossible for me to immerse myself in this world that I spent hours in as a seven year old kid. I wish I could go back. The story was so mysterious. Not to mention the soundtrack. A game that despite being broken and unfinished, is one that will always hold a special place in my heart.
Ayeee its my boi ZacCox. Im a sub bro
Too bad for you. I regularly play driv3r since it's the best police chase game, better than the arcadish San Francisco.
O M G, i think we lived the same fcking childhood. Driv3r was like the first of my ps2 games, and I was around 4-5 at the time, so I didnt know much more than to just run from police and sometimes follow the route it's clearly showing on the screen. I had my uncle who was like 12 at the time help me go through some missions and tasks, but I remembered Driv3r as a great game that I very much enjoyed a lot. Around 4 years ago, I was really bored so I decided to try some of the old titles I played, but now with a different perspective and mind. I thought that understanding the story would be a new experience, but Driv3r stayed the same. Almost no story at all, crashing into everyone and running from police all the time. Guess it was a perfect game for a 5 year old me.
Watch my latest driver videos guys
@@zr1836 same
I loved the "Driver" game, more than GTA. Driver has its own unique character and beauty.
And the driving mechanics were always superior compared to GTA!
"in the next coma, I want a goddamn yacht!" - John Tanner
_uh oh_
Sailor!
Alexisch Gut! Ya don’t have to explain the joke bro
Good one though lmao
thus driver speedboat paradise was born
aRandomGamer thus this became the worst game in the driver series IMO. I didn’t even play it
@ZEHMAR ANIMATIONS I was talking about the speed boats
Driver 1 was really something special.
Those vibes of driving around at night to those 70s inspired guitar/jazz numbers, simply unforgettable.
That's it for me too. Looking back I remember thinking elements of the game were lame, but one thing they nailed was that you felt you were in a movie. GTA is incredible in it's detail and choice but Driver had a very distinct mood.
One of the best video game songs ever. "New York at Night".
One off the top games of my childhood
I remember when I used to play Driver 2 religiously when I was a kid. Good times man.
Skip Bayless Me too i used to fight with my brother to play it good times. The game was so popular in my hometown that everyone was playing it
After i stumbled upon a garage door that opened, or a secret car, i spent weeks walking up to every door in the game, certain I'd find some secret car or anything. Yes, it was Driver 2 that killed my videogame exploration. It was a good game though
I still play it on my phone.
When i found out that you can exit from car my mind was blown
@@fuentesjuanjose90 are you using controller?
Driver, the original 3D Grand Theft Auto.
Driver San Francisco was one of the most fun games I played back then. Absolute stunner. Unfortunately within weeks of release, multiplayer was dead, which was a shame because the multiplayer was FANTASTIC.
I just want to leave a word of appreciation for the outstanding level of quality of your retrospectives. This almost brought me to tears with nostalgia. Thank you.
Ruben Cordeiro I can't get over the quality of these videos it's a straight-up documentary on fucking our favorite video games of our childhood
Cleanprincegaming does it better
#sarcasm
+1
I agree im subbing
If you look at Driv3r nowadays you can see how the graphics, the car physics and cutscenes still hold up VERY well. If Reflections had more time to polish the game, it could have easily been a masterpiece.
Driv3r was the best driver of the series.
I did enjoy Driv3r for messing around in the cars and the crashes were pretty decent. Did not like the gun play though.
Driver pararel line is the best
Yup. Driv3r had alot going for it, if only they had polished it properly. AI and on-foot sections were terrible, AI police had this ridiculous rubber band effect, lots of stupid glitches, and the story would've been memorable had the gameplay not been so rough around the edges. Car physics were good, not great. I still loved rolling around looking for fun and mischief in open world mode. As flawed as it was, Driv3r made True Crime LA look like an actual turd (because it was)
Driv3r became twice as awesome once I discovered that Grenade Launcher!
driver 2 is my childhood! i still have the original disc i had when i was a kid. such a great game and so was driver 3
“We got a tail man!”
“Loose the tail man!”
done
😂❤
"The rise and fall of Telltale" by GVMERS.
Coming soon.
After they announced the Minecraft tell tale and how they have youtubers doing the voice acting I knew then that they lost their soul. Little did I know they were also incompetent.
Too soon!
@Maintenance Renegade they peaked with The Walking Dead; Sam & Max were great but nowhere near as profitable.
@Maintenance Renegade yeah because in sam and max you are actually time to like characters like mad and when max died you actually felt something when that happens. Plus the Sam and max games were actually point and click adventure games not some edgelord depression simulator
If they don't update their engine I can see that becoming the case. However, the last Two Batman games they did were fantastic.
I loved Driver 3. I would play on casual mode exploring the cities and leading the cops on wild chases. Best driving mechanics ever!
Same! I really loved how the vehicles moved around and the pseudo realistic crashes.
Classic game!
Ｎａｊｉｍｕ なじむ why "pseudo"?
Parallel Lines was for me one of the best PS2 experiences I've ever had. The soundtrack and driving are the best aspects of the game for me.
Driver: SF is still a great game to this day. I have it on PC with a really nice Reshade preset. Makes the game look somewhat remastered. I think I'll boot up this masterpiece later today. It's been awhile.
the same
What's a reshade preset?
@@CriticalThought004 It's a pre-configured settings file for Reshade, which is a graphics modifier. You can use Reshade to adjust lighting, colors, sharpening, and other things.
of course my game is great
Driver 2 was the best in the series.....hands down. The story, the missions, 4 cities, so awesome all-around.
and the music!
@@Solidude That music was on another level.
First one was the best for me, but damn... driver 2 has thsoe secret cars at the stadium and at that secret base...
@@DA_BOID I loved the music
The First and second were the best.
Driver 1 was my childhood im getting old
Me too dude :(*
jeeeez same :P
Speak for yourselves I was 20 when that came out.
i member playing the demo of driver a lot! i was like kenny, the poor kid.
Dosenbier GER my dad played driver 1 and 2 on ps1 and should come back on ps4
Driver: San Francisco has a mission where you play as 2nd Person Perspective
Yeah, and it's unexpectedly satisfying controlling the car in front of you
you guyz can't touch my ride >:(
@@johntanner6625 Ayyy tanner how's taking down Jericho feel?
@@say.k2087 noice :)
Huh? That makes no sense, YOU are the second person lol
Childhood: Spending 10 minutes causing havoc on Driv3r, and the following hour editing a director's cut of the carnage :D
Using Auto-director and being satisfied.
Parallel lines is to me one of the most fun games i have played way back when on the PS2. The style, control and depth to the game was very surprising to me. And the 2 timelines were truly fun since it was very well done.
I agree, it's a brilliant game and definitely the most underrated Driver game. I love Parallel Lines, especially in the 70s era. The story, the style, the music, all very well done. And I love seeing those twin towers stand tall.
I have a friend who is a big Driver fan like me, and about 8 years ago we were talking about Driver and I mentioned Parallel Lines, he didn't even know it existed! He was like "They made another one!?"
I was surprised, but I guess after DRIV3R, the attention was drawn away from Driver. So not many people knew about Parallel Lines. One of the best Driver games.
Driver 76 wasnt too bad either
Only thing that hurts parallell lines imo is the lack of film director
I used to abuse the timelines. I'd do errands and earn cash in the past timelines then change the timeline, getting more cash in modern era and spent it all on cars.
I found myself playing parallel lines more than san andreas
Well parallel lines was bit copy of GTA , Driver series was always about chase , driving then shooting stuff( not saying bad)
Driver San Francisco was such a great game, shame we will never get anything similar.
Such an amazing soundtrack too.
the soundtrack was so unique, chill and funky. Fit the theme quite well
Ivan Malek we need a remaster!
It's crazy. I'd love to see it remade in different cities every couple years or so.
San Fran was a garbage discrace it's the reason I stopped playing driver
Honestly it's such a shame that Driv3r was pushed out so fast, that game had an awesome story and honestly pretty great gameplay. But in a way I'm glad it was like it was cause those glitches made it even more fun. lol The real crime here is that Driver 2 never got a PC release! I would kill for a version of this that was a little more graphically impressive like the PC release of the original was vs the PS1 version. Driver 2 had a pretty interesting story and a tonne of great characters, not to mention it's long as hell. lol
I think Driver 2 would've been better received if it was a PS2 launch title. The game was just too damn ambitious for the PS1, and constantly shat the bed.
Now the only thing fun about the third one was running around in free roam looking for the Tommy Vercetti rip off
DRIVER: N3XUS
It was such a good story my god. Characters where so good😭😭
Well someone made redriver 2
Basically driver 2 for pc
Hopefully one day Driver returns
DarkSpawn Forget about it. Grand Theft Auto raised the bar too high.
@@fullmetaljacket7 They can make the games different, avoid giving players the ability to walk around. The game could be done, but its down to who would do it and if Ubisoft wants to take the risk..
@@fullmetaljacket7 I agree, at this point its impossible for anyone to compete with rock star's open world shenanigans, not after gta 5 and RDR2, even square enix gave up.
FULLMETALJACKET7 GTA is dead at this point.
Fatrick Star Not in an online sense. I mean, they have not confirmed any other games after Online. That’s what I mean by “dead” tbh
but i will admit online still got them greenbacks
Enjoyed all the Driver games.
Driver 2 was my fave though, that was so far ahead of its time.
Driver 2 was one of my first games !
Jack M
Fuck the RA
Driver 2, and Parallel Lines were my favorites.
DRIV3R was pretty sweet too.
DRIVER, was, back when I was a wee youngin, was awesome as well.
Finding all the secret cars to use was probably my favorite part of that entire game.
I hope UBI reboots it, like Square did with Tomb Raider. :D
I actually really liked the plot of Driver 3. Despite its shortcomings, it was thrilling enough to keep you playing. The action wasn't bad too, and the driving was quite darn challenging. Crash even once, and there's a good chance you'd lose the level.
Driver was kinda perfect. The car physics were so awesome, and in the days before we had analogue controllers, you had a dedicated "burnout" button. That was awesome for us young budding hoons. The cheat options of damage off meant you quickly learned that if had a cop car was on it's side, and you hit the roof lightbar on just the right angle, you would be sent flying up into the sky.
Don't forget the "fast steer" button. We need those back in driving games imo. It basically gave you the option to drive slower and more precise, but when needed you could flick the car around and create insanely satisfying maneuvers. Instead of a guaranteed crash in other games, it would be a close call or narrow escape. Giving the player more control is always good imo.
Unreplacable memories with Driv3r and Parallel Lines
Such a great story line
I'd love to see the Rise and Fall of Twisted Metal. Or the Interstate/Vigilante 8 series.
seatspud yes!!!
Definitely Twisted Metal
BEES!!!
Did Twisted Metal Fall?.. To me it´s like Sony sometimes get around, wakes up and say "Let´s make another one." Granted that it has been 8 years since the last time a TM game came out. That said, i think they should remaster the hell out of TM2 World Tour. The best one in the series. Fantastic level design, but aged terrible graphic wise.
Man remember playing Vigilante 8 on the N64
this is a pretty neat story honestly, unlike other franchises, Driver looks like it has a good chance to come back and at least left on a high note for fans.
I used to pretend Driver PS1 was a fighting game with cars and I'd beat up ALL the police cars.
Lmao forreal dude? Thats actually hilariously awesome to me bc when Driver came out in '99, I was still merely just 3 years old, I was born in '96, ya see. I had it when it came out cause my Dad owned a PS1, Dreamcast, N64, Sega Genesis & Saturn, and a few other classic consoles, and he LOVED games like Driver. So, I played Driver, Driver 2, and DRIV3R for years, up until around 2004 when GTA SA dropped, and replaced the Driver series as my love affair game lol. All 3 Driver games still got more play from me (and prolly my dad too haha) than even GTA III and GTA Vice City though STILL!! Haha
But yea so anyways. To the point.
When I was a kid playing Driver and Driver 2, and even still w/ DRIV3R, I had 2 PRIMARYA (Obviously I invented some new idea at LEAST once per day lol) "Pretend Fantasies" or "Make Believe Stories" or whatever you'd wanna call it, for the games. One was I would choose/find cars that looked similar to cars from any one of the SEVERAL high octane "car Chase" type movies i would watch w/ my dad back then and loved (not the best example but Smokey & The Bandit is one of them for sure), and then, once I had my chosen car, I'd speed around the map running from the One Time (cops) and pretending I was controlling and/or IN one, or even many, of said movies!! So, my other playtime fantasy for the Driver games? Well, haha, funny enough..it was EXACTLY the same thing as what YOU described YOU used to do as well! Basicslly pretend the WHOLE DAMN CITY (Map) was basically just one immeasurably, unbelievably, incredibly, immensely massive and absolutely positively fucking INSANE-ass "Demolition Derby" of sorts, in which I could/would essentially run around making cars, just like you chose to put it basically, more or less, make them FIGHT each other!!! Hahaha..lol so yea. Thank you for your comment..ya brought back some FANTASTIC memories from being a kid playing oldschool (between 1985 and 2005/2006) games, hanging w/ my dad, and, of course, the silly, yet amazingly cool and fun little fantasy type, make believe things I'd frequently invent/come up with when/while playing my favorite games, to sorta RP (Roleplay) i guess lol. Way back before Roleplaying in video games was really considered "cool" lol
God bless you, brotha!!
In that game I mostly played on Survival San Fransisco. The cops are aggressive but fun to say the least.
Enter the Matrix is the game for you.
There was a particular spot under every car that, if hit, would rocket said car into space.
@@AtomicTridium Cops in the Driver series were no joke. I bought WatchDogs 2 hoping that some of Driver's DNA had crept into other parts of Ubisoft. I was sorely dissatisfied by the cops and how easy it was to evade them. Also by the weightlessness of cars in WatchDogs. In Driver, cars were heavier and lighter, and they drove accordingly to their weight. Ubisoft just doesn't make em like they used to.
I remember when I was a kind playing when I heard my name "Tanner" I freaked out haha
The truth is, Rockstar and GTA have basically overshadowed everyone in the gaming industry. Atleast before the GTA Online era anyway.
ah GTA online the fall of Rockstar
rise and fall of Twisted Metal, please!
Now this, I want to see!
TM and vigilante 8 were so damn good
I was just thinking the same thing as I was watching this video
yees yes! this is it!
*Yes!*
One thing the Driver series did amazingly well was their cut scenes. I remember as a kid staring at the screen in awe every time a cut scene came up. It was similar to Tekken, where you felt rewarded with reaching each one. And it gave the story that much more depth.
This has made me realise a couple of things. Firstly, I miss the days of the Driver games. It was those that got me into the GTA games after the releases of GTA1+2. GTA was top down and fun, Driver gave that 3d world I craved for. I have played all the Driver games that featured on consoles and Stuntman which yes was insanely difficult but bloody fun. Secondly I am old enough to have played Reflections first games on the Amiga and I have. Bugger, I am an old gamer XD
Binge watching this channel and loving it. The professional feeling and sounding productions are outstanding. Bravo.
Well, I suppose it's good that it ended with a bang. No shitty final game (Powerboat mafia doesn't count), no getting screwed over by the publisher. Just the developer deciding to make something different.
Agree, my favorite franchise at least died with dignity. This channel provides whole new perspective of drama to the game industry, I love it.
It's really cool to find out that they have been a part of several games, some that I've played and can say I definitely see their hand in it.
I agree wholeheartedly as well. They ended on a good game and didn't drive the franchise into the ground. Also seeing this made me feel differently about the driving aspects of other games, namely why driving in Wildlands feels so good.
Driver San Francisco was one of the best racing games I have ever played, so sad to know they won't be making a sequel...
It's always been such a brutally underrated game... it had everything Need for Speed missed at the time (and many it still misses) , and the game's version of San Francisco was probably the most alive city i've ever seen in any open world racing game.
Amen dude. I played it on PlayStation and PC, and I loved it. It was a perfect driving game...
It was one of the best open world racing game I ever played. Handling and damage model was amazing. Story was great. But sad cuz only few people know that game. Really underrated.
True words, put a steering wheel on it as well and it gave you the best driving experience ever.
Tag was the best multiplayer game ever
I remember there was a spot in Driver 2 where you could drive through a wall and off the map, ending up onto this endless grey plane. I’d attract as many cop cars as possible to follow me, then led them there. They could never get out and just kept slamming into each other. Don’t know why but I found it hilarious :P
did the same back in the day
And in Driver 2 I used to taunt police to those lift bridges and look them fall off
When I was a kid I found a similar bug on Driver 1 as well. There was a small dune of sand somewhere in San Francisco that you could jump over and land behind the map's walls. There no police could get you, but invisible walls made your car slowly break
Who's still plays Driver you are the wheelman ...?
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Then You Are A legend
I still play Driver 1 & 2 on the PS1 Emulator on my phone
I play on a Pentium 3 computer with a microsoft sidewinder game pad
how about vin diesel wheelman
I wish the game wasn't zapped from the apple store... but then again, my 4th gen ipod touch is long gone...
I finished driver 1 not long ago. Without cheats. Fuck that last mission was difficult. but very satisfying
OMG I hated the parking lot challenge on Driver PS1 I was stuck on that mission for so long.
I never beat it, shit was hard.
i think that was the intro, lol
Driver - The only game where the mandatory tutorial is harder than anything coming after it.
Actually its called PSX as PS1 was the slim line version of the console.
@@Bacon4Rashers PSX is just a nickname. The original PlayStation is called PS1 because it was the first in the series. There was no system officially called PSX sold in stores.
driver was one of the first realistic driving games. cops used to chase me because i was an inch on the sidewalk. good times
or Survival mode where the cops were bat shit insane
@@GraveDigger35 😂
I just remembered one chase, where my brother was playing in... Miami, if I recall correctly. He was airborne off a bridge when a police car ramped into him from the other side. His car flew off into the side of a building and was totaled!
@@Gyrfalcon312 yep, that was my favorite thing to do in these games, see what kind of shenanigans i can get the cops involved in.
When I first played Driver, I was on shrooms, and I loved it! Still do!
a wise man once said
So you play games john?
Nice experience I believe!
Just here to say DRIV3R will forever be immortalized in classic games, regardless of its “downfall”.
I remembered playing Driver 2 for many hours and got hype when I gotten to play Las Vegas and Rio. even my dad loved the game due to its driving.
I still have fun with the GTA series but Driver will always be special to me due to the memories it made for me.
Craig Thank you for respecting gta series while loving driver series.
The Rise and Fall of True Crime/Sleeping Dogs would be amazing.
Last sleeping dogs was good since then just no game came out.
Sleeping dogs?
I enjoyed both True Crime games and Sleeping dogs even more also. What you didn't like about TC:NY, shorty? the driving? :D
The standard edition of sleeping dogs felt empty and unfinished. There were barely any people, the shop fronts had clear 2d images instead of actual items, you couldn't go in hardly any buildings, and while it was fun it just felt somehow empty.
The complete edition on pc was a lot more fulfilling, with all the dlc and tweaks, but I can't help feeling that emptiness was due to large tracts of the game being ripped out when it was sold to a new developer. It lost a lot of its identity
@Hairy Crow 187 if the disk was faulty it wouldn't have loaded numb nuts.
It was empty in regards to very little meaningful content outside of the main missions
After all these years, I still have Driver: San Fransisco and Driv3r
Driver 1 was awesome
Driver San Francisco was an amazing but underrated game, im still waiting for a sequel.
Lets try forget the rest :P
lol
Driver San Francisco was definitely the best game in the series but for Driver 2 will always be the second best.
why forget Parallel Lines?
@@joaolimao9381 Parallel Lines was a good game and far better than the abysmal Driver 3, but like D3 before it, it became another GTA clone and got away from the point of the Driver series, which was just being a driver and nothing else.
@@sparkyKestrel um
In Parallel Lines you are infact a Driver, and they still kept all the Driver mechanics, it just improved the combat
Parallel Lines was prolly the most underrated driver game ever.. Atleast that's how I see it. Man that shit was my childhood, I remember the dark winter evenings when I would cluelessly roam around the city, mostly exploring the subway rails for whatever reason :DD I was like 7-8 years old and was playing it on no other than the original XBOX.. Shit those were the days....
I remember having parallel lines on my PS2, it was the first game i ever completed. Back then i loved to customize cars, and the fact that you could customize cars on that game made it even better.
When i found the cheat code menu where you put a code to activate a cheat, i remember finding them AND THERE WERE CHEAT CODES TO UNLOCK ALL THE CARS IN THE GARAGE AND MODIFY THEM FOR FREE. I instantly put them on and started customizing every single car and driving them.
Ruis Leipä Yeah I know right, like it’s never really heard of , even back then my friends didn’t have it but they had Driv3r and the original driver games. But I seen the cover parallel lines one day and it definitely had a sick looking cover art with the red car. But it’s still fun to this day I had to get it again because I’m slowly getting ps2 collection up again lol
I played DPL at least 3 times all the way through. Such a great story of revenge. The reason I liked DPL more than GTA back then was the frame rate. GTA suffered from horrible frame rates because they simply tried to do way too much with the hardware.
Bro I feel you, did the exact same. And I love the story line it was great.
Ayeee i'm not the only one who loved driver parallel lines that was my chlidhood. I remember not knowing what the songs said but I'd just singed.
The Rise and Fall of True Crime NEXT PLEASE!
You mean Sleepi... Watchdogs?
YES
I don't count Sleeping Dogs as a True Crime game. It's very different so I'm glad the name was changed.
lol it never even rose
Hell yeah
When I was a kid me and a friend of mine had so much fun playing the first game. We would each take turns directing our own getaway movies to see who could make the best one. That game actually taught me a lot about directing at an early age. Such a great game design.
Personally I would love to see a remastered Driver 1 & 2. Better quallity in the engine, visual improvments etc, and my all time missed mode, Survival.
Illusive Prime mine was carnage mode... only accessible to pc gamers, I was a ps1 console user till my friend showed me driver on the pc, blew my mind.
I played the original game on a 4th gen ipod touch and loved it. Was sad to see it zapped from the apple store.
driver pl is the real deal try it.
@@layman-toned7767 I've tried all Driver game. P.L was okay. To me, since there was no Tanner, the game felt fake to me.
I use to always freeroam driver 2 and driv3r acting like it was some life simulator lol
Me too
I remember the house in Las Vegas you could park cars in and I used to pretend It was my own house.
You're a real gamer. Not a hotdogger.
OG LOC og loc? I thought you were called jefferey?? XD
Parallel Lines was so damn good. The idea of having your main character go to prison and having an entire open world in 2 different eras was something I haven't seen before or since. Their problem was with the out of car controls/game play. I'm pretty sure the guy couldn't jump, among other things. Driver had better driving physics and crashes than grand theft auto, but they dropped the ball on the out of car stuff. That's really what killed them.
Mafia 2 also done something similar with the two time periods.
mr5elfde5truct yeah this was really original and interesting and even edgy in the sense that it defines the nature of the soul in a sense which most entertaining mediums especially in our age like to avoid for risk of alienating potential fanbase and to me that's one of those like designing the game around earing potential which kills games in my opinion. Feels like there is not much heart and soul in games anymore
I loved the story and characters in parallel lines! Underrated game
cloudskipa probably my favorite open world game
and mafia 1
This is easily one of the best series done on TH-cam. Thought out and executed extremely well. Every game I dipped my childhood brain in has been on here and it's nice to understand why I don't play most of them anymore.
Excellent documentary!! I enjoyed watching this. Brought back so many memories of the original titles. Thank you!
The driving physics on the first driver are still better than a LARGE majority of racing/driving games today. I Remember being able to hit R1 and having a power boost, i use to just drift around the city for hours, never even bothered to beat the game, i was so drawn in by the driving physics.
Then they made stuntman and also killed it. the fact you could get a monster truck, place cars and run over them kept me occupied for hours on end. Good fucking times.
Sounds fun!
These games are such a huge part of my childhood, they truly were inspiring and border pushing games for the time.
Absolutely breathtaking documentary on one of my most loved series ever. The end is especially beautiful. When you started playing the SF soundtrack while explaining the legacy Driver possessed it almost brought a tear to my eye.
Driver SF was the beautiful final sendoff the series deserved.
True
probarly the best channel for video games and i hope it grows, a non bias views and excellent research, well put togeather and a top narrater, carm voice, easy to listen too, and explained in a way we all understand :)
Driver 2 isnt inferior to Driver 1 at all.....its better in every way pushing PS1 to the limit
agreed. also had a legit story to go along with it. loved driver 2
I liked the music in first way more though. And that difficulty was insane...
Kacpa2 the intro showed me that this was going to be epic. But 1 minute in and he already convinced me not to watch it.
Definitely, I liked Driver 2 more. The on foot gameplay mechanic was kinda clunky, but being able to do that back then was amazing.
D1 had the best music. Period! I still listen to it
It's neat to see Driver still talked about. DRIV3R offered lots of enjoyable moments in spite of all the glitches and inferior mechanics. The soundtrack, characters, and voice acting were awesome, but some of the missions were hard as hell even if you used cheats. Oh yes, cheat codes were still a thing then.
That mission in Istanbul were you had to chase Calita (first on car and then on bike) is something I never wan't to do again.
These documentaries are amazing, I'm incredibly hooked.
It's 2005. The rain is pouring outside while you turn on your family pc. You ask your family member to install this game onto the computer. You start it and hear the most beautiful soundtrack of your life that would later become the most nostalgic thing. You are transported into a different world... somewhere in miami...
I would Love to See "the Rise and Fall of Legacy of Kain"
Oh god, this. I forgot about that lol
For me, the best and most distinctive thing in the original Driver series was the 70's feel, like a real movie, and this kinda lacked in Driver: San Francisco (despite movie challenges mode, which was the best thing in the game).
Today's graphics, good car physics, great storyline in a funky 70's environment with real cars and cities would be the perfect combination (maybe bring Rio and Havana back?). Man, that would be a dream!
Its why GTA Vice City is so beloved.
@John T i owned and played Driver...was fun for the short duration that the single player ran for. I made the mistake the first time through of finishing the mission that sends you into the future
Mafia would be the closest to that, but driver was great in its own ways.
@Rafa Miqueleto, absolutely true. No game to this date has replicated that vibe, not even Vice City, as some mention... and most games that try it usually end up on the satirical or humorous approach (as VC).
Driver 2 it's the main culprit on that feel. As you said, Havana and Rio were something rather unique and truly inserted and coined on us that 70's mood.
This was so increadible to watch and enjoy to today and nice editing man :]
It had been a long time I didn't watch a 30-minute video without speeding it up and enjoy every second! Thank you so much for the vid!
I'm not a Driver fan but i really,really love Driver San Francisco. I hope Reflections can find its passion again and revive the franchise one more time. Because let's be honest, Ivory Tower's The Crew is not that good
Some of the additional works of The Crew 1 and The Crew 2 were responsibled by Reflection.
I loved Drive San Francisco, was surprised just how good it was, a very underrated game for sure!! I never finished everything on that game, one of the later missions I had to go so fast that the cars kept popping and I always ended up crashing, after 5 hours of trying I gave up! I did almost everything though, I really wish it would get remastered for ps4 or the older Driver games would get remastered.
I hope one day we can get a Driver game least as good as Driver San Francisco in the future.
Parallel Lines was really good too.
Frisco was the worst of the series. They turned Driver into a PG rated kids game and made Jericho a villain when he was originally a gangster. Any true Driver fan from way back in the day HATES San Francisco.
And I asked Reflections the other day and they said "Thanks for your interest in Driver! As you can imagine, we're very proud of our heritage at Reflections and games such as Driver. While we currently have no plans to make another Driver game."
It'll be my dream to see another MATURE Driver game, and A LOT of people are asking for another Driver game. Look on Facebook at their comments and all their posts say "Make another Driver". But I don't think they will.
@DRIVER no matter how good the game is u have to find people hating on it did u see the video ge said driver san Francisco is the one who brought the series back on track and the only reason we didn't get a driver game today is because Ubisoft too busy doing assassin's creed or watch dogs and ghost recon wildlands
@@john_7000 I personally loved San Francisco but then again I played Burnout and need for speed growing up instead of Driver
I know everyone has different taste and all but Driver San Fran was fucking God awful. That game killed the entire franchise and they ended up just making Watch_Dogs instead. In case for anyone who didn't know Watch_Dogs was originally meant to be the next Driver installment. How anyone could use the word "good" and "Driver San Fransisco" in the same sentence is beyond me. I hope you get help.
Hey, this video is amazing! I've ALWAYS loved the Driver series, ever since playing Driver 2 as a kid, and this was really interesting to watch and follow, and definitely gained you a new subscriber, and sure many others like me too! Thanks for making this on such a beloved game from my childhood. I'd like to add a suggestion, if you could also do "The Rise and Fall of True Crime", from True Crime L.A. to True Crime New York City and maybe it's rebranding as Sleeping Dogs, I believe it'd be a really interesting video premise you should consider! Thanks and keep these up, great editing and narration!!!
These are the best video's, well done. My first open world game was Vice City so love for that was strong, but i sure did enjoy Driver year's later on my PS1.
San Francisco was a beast for sure! Man, the sole idea to teleport between cars, navigating them to create a massive chaos on the road for your enemy was a pure genius. This is how directors of the greatest car-chase movies feel like, that's how 6-year you feel like playing with toy cars on a carpet! What else do a man need?
Driv3r has best story, ingame videos and soundtrack
Nahh, the plot doesn't make so much sense. It was literally Narcos but with car traffiking instead of drugs
@Char Aznable Disagreed. As "bad" as 3 was it had it's own distinct charm to it that it is still unmatched. I also preferred the driving physics in 3 more too but that's just me.
@@2K-Tan
The Driving Physics is the only thing that beats it
the story, soundtrack and combat is 100x times better
It did have an awesome soundtrack but have you heard the soundtrack of Parallel Lines and SF?? They were amazing too! Their soundtracks were always great
Dude first of all Hats off to the research team of yours, the Info you people pulled up is commendable. Few years back i was wondering what happened to the Driver San Francisco And you guys brought up all the details.
dude your channel is in a whole new level, honestly, makes look the other gmaing channels rally amateur, I mean this is culture right here, this nat geo, history channel quality level stuff seriously!!!
i still free roam driv3r every now and then
error17 I will not run on my emulator properly and my PS2 is long gone 😭
ive got the PC version too, you should try it
error17 - What?! There's a PC version? Where?! when?! 😲😃
Leaving this comment here because I want to know too!
+siloPIRATE
Not that hard to get a PS2. You can find a used one for very little since so many of it where sold.
Stuntman was such a gem. Hard as hell but satisfying, plus it was a ton of fun making stuff in the stunt constructor mode.
it was the first game i played on my PS2 and probably the one i played the most. getting 100% in some of those scenes is my proudest gaming achievement i think. i had forgotten about the stunt mode, i used to make stupidly elaborate stunts. shame the sequel kind of sucked, i bet if atari hadn't sold the stuntman rights to THQ we would've gotten another reflections stuntman and it would've been excellent. i'd love to see another stuntman game released today but i'm not sure how well a linear driving game would do in this day and age. although a multiplayer mode where everyone cooperates to pull off the stunts would be awesome.
Satisfying? It was excruciating. You couldn't really practice different sections and work it all out, you had to do it all at once and start over from the beginning if you made the slightest mistake. If you were a glutton for punishment, maybe it was fun for you, but there was no real payoff for pulling it off: it just dumped you into another excruciating scenario. It needed a concession or two to make it more worthwhile.
Manfrey Gordon Totally agree. Played so much back in the day. I learnt a lot from that game lol the last couple missions were brutal. I loved making stunts so much, getting all the cars, ramps n loops was awesome it was a nice reward. I wish they would make a new one but just focus on that instead. Multiplayer would be amazing.
Eatinbritches Yes satisfying... I didn't say it was fun doing the career stuff, sometimes maybe. When you finished a run and unlocked new stuff for constructor mode it felt good, game was definitely too unforgiving but I still enjoyed it. Making stunts, was the best part.
Driv3r: We gonna get released ahead of GTA this time!
GTA San Andreas: Ah shit, here we go again
Great video, really interesting stuff!
I miss this generation of games. No publisher/studio would make a game like this anymore because of the financial risk and competition. It feels like there is not enough risk taking in the gaming industry these days.
I think you are incorrect: We see 'risky' games all the time now thanks to cheaper and more robust development tools. The 'risk' part is minimised due to the process being cheaper. The examples we see are very good looking and well controlling games in the indie genre. Also with digital distribution making things cheaper, we have even cheaper games to experiments with like the aforementioned Grow Home. Heck, some games release as free from the get go (which would be unheard of in past generations).
This is the golden age of gaming and I don't see it slowing down anytime soon. Nostalgia is is always inaccurate, so nostalgia be damned. :)
@@shmookins probably he should've said high profile games instead of games in general.
He is partially right, most of the risks as you said are taken by indies with small budget games that if successful can get them mad bucks and kickstart their career but if not no big deal so long they can get some investment back.
Even a hat in time, a game i really liked, is clearly done on a small budget and major game developers are very unlikely to try something new unless they are sure it can sell very well or are backed by even bigger companies like sony or nintendo that can take the hit in case of failure.
Playing safe and the whole stuff
Same as big budget movies. It will be the endless march of recycled marvel movies until the end of time
Sure. Wouldn't you agree that it is a much better time to experiment with games now compared to the past? I mean, just the concept of episodic games was unthinkable in the past. I think the risks involved with experimenting and game making in general is less nowadays because of the many different ways to make and distribute games now. Online interactions and feedback alone is a huge influence.
In addition, big budget risks are still alive. One of the reasons I like Ubisoft is they are biggest makers of AAA new IPs. Sony does as well, but no company comes close to the numbers Ubi puts out. From Blood and Bone to The Crew 2 to The Division to Wildlands to For Honor and many more.
So we have experimentation with huge AAA budgets and countless more with indie. And some indie games out there look so good (tech-wise) that they would have had to be made with a relatively big budget and more manpower in the past. This is thanks to tech like UE4 and Unity being not way simpler to use now than in the past, but also to being free (which is absolutely crazy to think about).
Compared to the past, we now have way more AAA titles (original and sequels), indie experimentation, many new delivery and business options from crowd funding to DLC to episodic content to free games, devs having instantaneous and direct connection with gamers via social media, real-time monitoring of stats from both the business side and how gamers play the game (thanks to online services) and so on.
Just to show how good it is nowadays compared to the past, look how many dead IP's are getting a revival in the forms of re-releases, remakes and reimaginings. We got games that were long dead from 90's (Double Fine games) to cult classics like Crash and Spyro seeing huge returns. Some games change major features between a beta and final release just because of gamer feedback- which is only possible thanks to the internet. I mean, who ever thought e-sports would be a thing and streaming gameplay would be even a possibility? You could stream-play PS4 games on a phone...WTF?!
The OP says: "No publisher/studio would make a game like this anymore because of the financial risk and competition", but I see 'games like this' all the time from AAA to indie on practically every platform imaginable. I think nostalgia is a cloudy memory. I've been a gamer since the MSX and there is no comparison how much better gaming is today in every single regard compared to the past- plus all the new innovations in gaming unimaginable in the past.
What a time to be a gamer. :D
i lived that time. it was the time when games were made by the gamers not buy some billion dollar company defending their titles by microtransactions
I really loved Driver 3 for the casual driving around multiple cities.
And Driver Parallel Lines was very fun. Story and gameplay wise.
Thank you for the great work.. brilliant historical effort in here..
Driver parallel lines in my word book its the meaning of my beautiful childhood i miss this game and will love it forever. The think i love most about the game is the era change. When i turned 6 years old i still played this beautiful game and i accidently restarted the game. I cried and begged to my brother to help me complete the era change because it was so cool to play in 2006. And the songs on the radio. Do we really have to talk about them, just perfect songs. I even used to sing them in my daycare. This game needs more attention.
Driver 4 ever. It will always hold a certain place in my heart of gamer. #RedRiver
Me too
Lol I'm subbed to you vortex. Love your driv3r videos.
That would be an ultimate dream if they made a game solely about driving with difficult and realistic handling, like GTA 4 or Dirt. No shootouts and running, just hardcore car chases. Something GTA 5 is lacking of.
Chris Nong I'd like to still get out of the cars but yeah.
Chris Nong So you want gta to be driving game?
One of the better games I've played in terms of strictly hardcore car chases without shootouts or other on foot stuff is one that everyone probably knows - Need For Speed Most Wanted (2005 obviously). The car chasing in that game feels like what the old Driver games were about back when it was all about car chases and no on footing. The Driver series has amazing potential to recreate what NFS MW did, but even better I believe.
TerminHaider Yeah mw car chases were amazing!
Okay but I love the way Tanner walks in Driver 2, its so cute and funny
I'm a big fan of Driver, but I think it should be laid to rest. After the first three main releases, its identity was just totally lost and completely fractured - with far too many prequels, spin-offs, offshoots. It's a bit of a mess.
If the studio had held their nerve and kept the formula behind Driver 2 going (with evolutionary improvements), it probably could have kept enough distance from GTA (another franchise I love).
However, I'm still waiting for a current/next gen 70s-inspired cop chase game that interests me...
Exactly...and that would be fine if they hadn't taken it off their online stores! You can't get these games anymore, even Driver: SF! You can't download it anywhere. They deleted the iOS app that was the first game as an app too...
The Hollywood car chase simulator style of DRIVER has never been matched tho'. That's what we need to go back!
i play driver pl all the time its fully 70s inspired
No, shut up. Driver san francisco was perfect :/ they can keep the same formula
@@jackevans1092 nah, gta is just a bitch rockstar uses to sell shark cards and just gets neglected for online
I never liked GTA3 over Driver 2 or 3. It was the driving physics in the Driver series that i loved, and the dark gritty storyline.
I had the same issue with gta.. I never get to play it for too much time, because of the so freaking awful driving
Mafia II and Driv3r have the best driving physics for such open world games. I don't get it why cars still feel like going on rails even in GTA 5.
Dimitar Stanev driving on gta 5 is easy af. Driving in gta 4 is like driving on ice
@@scottzummers2812 driving shouldn't be easy, it's so arcade-y and wrong when you know how a real car should behave. That's why I respect Mafia 1 and 2. GTA IV is an interesting case and vehicle handling in it was definitely more realistic than GTA 5.
Dimitar Stanev we talking about driving in video games tho. But IV driving was garbage. Driving in V is easy
Driver San Francisco is one of my favorite games of all time. The physics are on point, the car models are great, I completed the very funny campaign. It was a blast to play online and had quite a community considering the type of game it is.
Most of all, I had a blast playing local multiplayer with my two boys. Hours and hours we played from “Free Roam” to the challenges. The language was pretty salty but at least pedestrians jumped out of harm’s way. A great game all around and a solid 9 out of 10 from me. I kind of hope a sequel is on the way but I’d hate for Ubi to ruin it with some “new idea”.
unless you had the Wii version of San Francisco, then it was the first two that would be your favorites
Your documentaries are amazingly well done. Keep up the good work. 👍
I would kill for another Driver game in the mould of Driver: San Francisco
Same :( The Crew is just so much worse imo really wish they'd let Reflections lead another game!
have you ever considered making a "rise and fall of Burnout?"
@Amadeus Eisenberg It was EA who killed Burnout.
Yeah, NFS didn't need to become burnout. Criterion couldn't adapt to the fact that they were making a Need for Speed game, not burnout. Why did EA have to shut down Black Box, arrrrrgh... They brought us all the greatest NFS games.
I fucking LOVE burnout. I think I beat revenge at least 10 times all the way through in my life. Paradise is great, but nowhere near as blisteringly intense as revenge
don't you mean EA killed NFS? not burnout
I'm not trying to start an argument here, but this is something people commonly get wrong. Criterion really had something going for NFS Most Wanted 2012 (Just look at some of the beta/very early gameplay.) EA then came and said that Criterion had to finish the game faster, which resulted in Criterion having to rush it and most likely need to copy Burnout physics/gameplay to satisfy EA's release date requirements. Criterion wanted to make their NFS games good, but EA rushed them and didn't allow them to do so. EA killed NFS, not Criterion.
First off, this was a great video, really professional.
I've played all the main titles, and other than the 1st, I've walked away with fond memories of them all. It just wasn't a good idea to force you to go through the list of maneuvers to get to play the game. That took me way too long, and luckily I had already played the 2nd game first to know the series would be great, and not quit it immediately.
I spent literally hundreds of hours in the 2nd and 3rd just exploring the cities while listening to my favorite albums at the time. Finding secrets, beating the cops, hitting big jumps, and causing mayhem. While the 3rd game got criticized for the gun play, both GTA and Driver failed to make their games playable without cheating, unless you like repeating missions 30 times. So I didn't see one being better than the other. Just punch in some cheats that would make them more enjoyable.
Parallel Lines was a great game, and it did copy GTA too much, but in my opinion the driving was far superior to anything GTA had done, and I believe was the reason Rockstar finally got their shit together with driving mechanics. The story was better than any GTA game up to that point. The soundtrack had a few really good artists I had never heard of before that.
San Fransico wasn't what I wanted or what I expected, but turned out to be a great Driver game, though the plot twist was a little obvious. It had a really good story structure and fluidity. I can remember how you were forced to really think about different ways of solving problems such as jumping over into a big vehicle and steering it into your opponents and jump back to rear end them. Very interesting game mechanics, and a return to the cinematic story telling of Driver 2.
I don't know if there is room for another Driver game in today's climate. One might say that GTA is too successful for it. I would say that Rockstar has gotten it's head so far up it's ass with GTA Online that there is a wide open window for another Driver game right now, if they strike while Rockstar is resting on their laurels, they could make a huge splash.
Parallel Lines soundtrack had unknown artists you'd never heard? Cuz, Grand Master Flash was unknown, bruh?
PS. Any of the GTA's has got nothing on any of the Driver's physics.
@@zensoredparagonbytes3985 Lyrics Born - "I Changed My Mind" is the one that stuck with me. Never thought I'd hear something like that in a Driver game.
You want so badly to be the edgy punk ass comment shit poster, but you're just a poser.
Again... GTA was nowhere near that hard. You had to repeat some of the missions maybe a half dozen times, but it's possible. Not perfect, but you never needed to cheat. That's the thing, the gameplay and design was good enough that you could find a work around. Driv3r simply did not give you that luxury. Don't think they're on the same page in terms of mission difficulty
I fully agree
I'm just glad they seem to be satisfied with their current work, hopefully not as crunched and pressured as the current triple A development projects.
I had Driver 2 on the Ps1, Parallel Lines on Ps2 (which I still play occasionally) and I've been replaying San Francisco on the xbox one.
Parallel lines was incredible, I adore that game so much. And San Fran, I've only got good stuff to say about it. Such a unique experience, and the replayability of it is great.
Hell, even the cutscenes and dialogue of San Francisco was so fleshed out, it could've been a movie